Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Boraxman to Bf2k+ on Wed May 14 2025 08:05 am

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Re: Good Older Fantasy & Sci-
By: Boraxman to MRO on Sun
May 11 2025 10:27 pm

The last three books do go off on a tangent, but God Emperor is worth
the diversion. I liked it quite a bit more than Children of Dune.

I also liked GE. In fact I re-read it last year just for the fun of it. I read most of the FH books in the 70's and 80's so it was refreshing to read some of his original work.

I have read probably most of the BH books and liked a lot of them, but they aren't like the FH books...

Do you recommend Brians books? I've heard not so good things about them, and personally I don't really like "franchises", that is, milking a "universe" for all its got. If it didn't come from Frank Herberts original intention, then I can't see it as "canon".

Well... it's been a long time since I read a BH book... at least 10-15 years. I really don't remember them very well so it would be hard to specify one. I remember liking the one where they moved some sandworms to another place... was that 'Sandworms of Dune'? I think that was the last one I read. I don't recognize any of the titles after that one.

But then at my age now, the RAM chips don't refesh like they used to...

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Anyone have any custom Quake II levels? I still play and have most of
the older packaged add ons like Zero.

Be cool to try something new. I also love the old platformers like
Duke
1 and 2, Keen and the like.

There are still heaps around, if you do a search.

But I can recommend some of mine!

From my Levels page

http://boraxman.strangled.net/levels/#quake-2-levels

I would recommend
"Dens Palace"
"Orbital Fortitude"
and if you want, a 5 level unit
"The Ulysses Project".

All available at that link. I also got into contact with a Russian mapper, Pavel Shangin, he started making levels after reaching out to
me. Never heard from him since, but he made quite a few, which I've
got on my site too
They're pretty good too! http://boraxman.strangled.net/levels/pavels_levels/

Thank you! I was unable to retrieve 'Orbital Fortitude' - got an url
not found message. Got all the others. I like the game, but remember
most everything in the levels. So it's excellent that you have some
custom content that I can aim at.

Also got 'Heavy Industry' as it looked good! Thanks for making this.
Once I get it loaded, I'll send you some feedback.

http://boraxman.strangled.net/Quake2Levels/Orbfort.zip

Try the link above. Didn't realise that case sensitivity made an issue!

I think Orbital Fortitude is the best of the Quake 2 levels I made.


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Quoting Boraxman to Cougar428 <=-

Thank you! I was unable to retrieve 'Orbital Fortitude' - got an url
not found message. Got all the others. I like the game, but remember
most everything in the levels. So it's excellent that you have some
custom content that I can aim at.

Also got 'Heavy Industry' as it looked good! Thanks for making this.
Once I get it loaded, I'll send you some feedback.

http://boraxman.strangled.net/Quake2Levels/Orbfort.zip

Try the link above. Didn't realise that case sensitivity made an
issue!
I think Orbital Fortitude is the best of the Quake 2 levels I made.

Got it! Thanks again Borax! Thanks for keeping the levels going.

Cougar

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